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HOWARD L. WILSON, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

DIARY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,632, dated December6, 1904:. Application filed December 29,1902. Serial No. 136,980. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LHOWARD L. WVrnson, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York,have invented a new and Improved Diary, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved loose-leafpocket-diary requiring but little printing upon the leaves or cards andone in which but few different series of cards are required to cover ayear or term of years.

The several drawings illustrating my invention are as follows:

Figure 1 is a face view of the diary with the cover opened and shows thememorandumcards in place in the case (Z. Fig. 2 is an edge view of theparts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a face view of the cards removed fromthe case (Z and so displaced as to show the upper portion of each card.Fig. 4t is a face view of the case (Z; and Fig. 5 is a sectional view ofsuch case, taken along the dotted line 00 1 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a viewof the upper portion of one of the cards and shows one way of fillingout the blank heading.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, in my diary 1 make use of a case (Z,consisting of a sheet of metal having formed up thereon the L-shapedside pieces (Z and a similar bottom piece (Z, all so proportioned, asindicated, that a suitable number of the cards 0 may be inserted in thecase from the top and held therein without to any appreciable extentconcealing the memoranda upon the front card in the case or preventingthe writing thereon of any desired memorandum.

The cards 0 have tabs 0 so formed on their upper ends that each tab (2is no wider than one-seventh of the width of the cards a, and such tabs0 are so displaced laterally that for one series of seven cards, asshown in Fig. 3, all of the tabs will be in view when the cards are inthe case (Z, as shown in Fig. 1. The tabs just mentioned are designed tocarry letters or suitable abbreviations to indicate the days of theweek, each one of the series above mentioned corresponding to adifferent day. Near the top of the card is printed the name of the dayin full corresponding to the indication of the tab 0', connectedthereto, followed by a blank space for the insertion of the month andday of the month, followed in turn by the numerals 19, followed by aspace for the units and hundreds of the year. It is designed that one ormore series of seven cards shall be used in the case (Z at one time andthat at the end of each day the card for that day shall be removed andplaced in a suitable place for reference and a blank card for the sameday of the week he put into the case (Z back of the remaining six cards.Obviously several similar cards may be used for each day instead of one,and the case (Z may be made to accommodate several series of cardsinstead of one series only.

The case (Z is rigidly secured in any suitable manner to a cover (1. ofsuitable materiahwhich has a flap arranged to fold over and protect theface of the exposed card and also to pre-- vent the cards 0 from slidingout of the case (Z, so that the diary may be safely carried in thepocket.

It will be noticed that a blank space will be left on each tab at thebottom of the indication thereon and the top edge of the card. Thisspace may be used, as shown in Fig. 6, to indicate the month and daythereof for which the card to be or was used. The manner of filling outthe heading of the card is also shown in Fig. 6. It is intended thatthis shall be done preferably just before the blank card is placed inthe ease (Z.

A valuable result of printing the cards, as above described. with onlythe. names of the days of the week is that only seven different stylesof cards are required for all the days of a single year or term ofyears.

I will now describe one of the preferable methods of using and operatingmy diary. It will be noticed that the tabs on the cards coverpractically oneseventh of the space across the width of the card,wherebyall the cards for the several consecutive days of any one week,beginning with any one day, may be exposed to view and whereby also allof the cards for each day of any number of weeks the top for theinsertion and removal of the I are arranged in alinement one behind theother. In using my diary then there may be contained in thecarrying-case, say, for instance, twenty-one cards, and one set of sevenfor one week may be devoted to memorandum of events transpiring on eachsuccessive day of the week and another set of seven immediately behindthem may be devoted to the next succeeding week and upon which there maybe written any appointments that are to be made for the several days ofsuch next succeeding week, and the seven cards standing for stillanother week may have been used and on them there may have been anymemorandum of appointments in the way above indicated and alsomemorandum of occurrences of the day standing for each,one of such cardswhen such day arrived. This latter series of cards standing for the daysof the preceding week when there has been a desired number of themcovering a space of, say, one or two weeks may be removed and put in asuitable receptacle to be used for future reference.

l Vhat I claim isl. A loose-leaf diary consisting in a series of cardshaving tabs with characters thereon designating a particular anddififerent day of the week and month for the use of each clifferent cardin such series, and a case open at cards and arranged to inclose thecards on the back and on their side and bottom edges and for a shortdistance across the front adjacent to such side and bottom edges andarranged also to expose the face of the first card.

2. A loose-leaf diary consisting in a series of cards having tabs withcharacters thereon designating a particular and different day of theWeek and month for the use of each different card in such series, and acase open at the top for the insertion and removal of the cards andarranged to inclose the cards on the back and on their side and bottomedges and for a short distance across the front adjacent to such sideand bottom edges and arranged also to expose the face of the first card,in combination with a flap or cover secured to such case and arranged tofold down over the front of the cards and operating when in thatposition to retain such cards in such case.

3. A loose-leaf diary consisting in a series of cards having tabs withcharacters thereon designating a particular and different day of theweek and month for the use of each different card, and a case open atthe top for the insertion and removal of the cards and arranged toinclose the cards on the back and on their side and bottom edges and fora short distance across the front adjacent to such side and bottom edgesand arranged also to expose the face of the first card and the tabsstanding for the successive days of any given week beginning with anyone day, and with all the tabs standing for any particular'day of theweek arranged in alinement behind each other.

4. A loose-leaf diary consisting in a series of cards having tabs withcharacters thereon designating a particular and difierent day of theWeek and month for the use of each different card, and a case open atthe top for the insertion and removal of the cards and arranged toinclose the cards on the back and on their side and bottom edges and fora short distance across the front adjacent to such side and bottom edgesand arranged also to expose the face of the first card and the tabsstanding for the successive days of any given week beginning with anyone day, and with all the tabs standing for any particular day of theweek arranged in alinement behind each other, in combination with a flapor cover secured to such case and arranged to fold down over the frontof the cards and operating when in that position to retain such cards insuch case.

HOWARD L. WILSON.

